'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS
3/31/202643 min
Rachel Maddow points out several instances of Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security paying tens of millions of dollars more than the assessed value of warehouses the administration wants to turn into massive prison camps for immigrants.
While Donald Trump's scattershot strategy against Iran appears to produce a lot of positive outcomes for Russia, the American public is not so fortunate. But Trump's worthless word and the biuld-up of U.S. troops in the Middle East make a negotiated end to the situation in Iran seem increasingly unlikely. Rachel Maddow discusses with former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes.
Indivisible's Ezra Levin, fresh off a massive weekend of No Kings protests, talks with Rachel about the next protest event in the works, a general strike on May 1.
Rachel Maddow highlights the Trump administration's shift from using the Justice Department to meddle in states' elections to assigning that task to the Department of Homeland Security, which is distinguished by scandals, incompetence and a disregard for the law.
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The president has a 33% approval rating and a 62% disapproval rating. The president is now sending American ground troops, thousands of them, and special forces as well, to join his inexplicable war in Iran, which is now entering its second month. That war is even less popular than the president himself is. Specifically, the idea of US troops having boots on the ground in that war, that is even less popular than the overall war. There is now a 10-foot-tall golden toilet on the National Mall at the Lincoln Memorial. It says, quote,